_Aethelric BERNICIANS _+
|
_Alfred AETHELFERTH _|
| |
| |_______________________
|
|
|--Oslaph BERNICIANS
|
| _______________________
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|_____________________|
|
|_______________________
_Jean II "The Good" DE VALOIS _+
| (1319 - 1364) m 1332
_Jean I DE VALOIS ___|
| |
| |_Judith "Bonne" LUXEMBOURG ____
| (.... - 1349) m 1332
|
|--Bonne DE BERRY
| (1365 - 1435)
| _______________________________
| |
|_Jeanne DE ARMAGNAC _|
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|_______________________________
_Charles III DE BOURBON-PARME ____+
| (1823 - 1854)
_Robert I DE BOURBON-PARME ___________________________|
| (1848 - 1907) m 1869 |
| |_Louise Marie Therese DE BOURBON _
| (1819 - 1864)
|
|--Elias DE BOURBON-PARME
| (1880 - 1959)
| __________________________________
| |
|_Maria Pia della Grazia DE BOURBON DES DEUX- SICILES _|
(1849 - 1882) m 1869 |
|__________________________________
_John, MEADOWS ______+
| (1658 - 1721) m 1694
_Joshua Joel MEADOWS _|
| (1702 - 1777) m 1737 |
| |_Miss AUBREY ________+
| (1678 - 1721) m 1694
|
|--Elizabeth MEADOWS
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| _____________________
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|_Judith GREEN ________|
(.... - 1768) m 1737 |
|_____________________
_David, Sr. MIZELL __+
| (1770 - 1850) m 1808
_Enoch Everett MIZELL _|
| (1806 - ....) |
| |_Sarah ALBRITTON ____+
| (1786 - ....) m 1808
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|--Nancy MIZELL
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| _____________________
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|_Annie JACKSON ________|
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|_____________________
_Richard PERCY ______+
| (1535 - ....)
_Richard PERCY ______|
| (1570 - ....) m 1588|
| |_____________________
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|--William PERCY
| (1595 - ....)
| _____________________
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|_Marguerite CONEY ___|
(1550 - 1572) m 1588|
|_____________________
[517]
Master of Ship Lyon, Winthrop Fleet
Captain of the Mayflower on its second voyage to New England. Following
is from Colby, op cit.:
"The regard in which he was held is indicated by this excerpt from
Bancroft's History of the United States: "The captain of the Mayflower
(on its first voyage), named Jones, had agreed to take them (the
Pilgrims) only across the Atlantic. He is said to have been bribed by
Virginian and Dutch colonists not to bring the Pilgrims to Virginia or
New Amsterdam. Capt. William Pierce would have landed them where they
wished, and if he had commanded the Mayflower on that voyage New
England might have been settled in Virginia or New York. The Pilgrims
had planned to go to the Hudson river."
"Although it was not until her second voyage that he was captain of the
famed Mayflower, Capt. William had more than his share of "firsts". He
brought the first cattle to New England from England (ship Charity,
1624). He brought from the West Indies to New England the first cotton
(1633) and the first sweet potatoes (ship Desire in 1636). He published
the first bound book in English to be printed in North America -
Pierce's (Peirse's) Almanac of 1639 calculated for New England and
printed by Stephen Day, "an exceedingly illiterate printer," on a press
brought to Boston in 1638 by the Rev. Mr. Glover, English clergyman."
"Although the first Thanksgiving Day is commonly considered to have
been the celebration following the first Pilgrim harvest in 1621, it
has been suggested that Captain William Pierce was instrumental in
bringing about the first real Thanksgiving observance ten years later!"
"The winter of 1630-31 was severe, game was scarce, the corn supply was
nearly gone, even acorns and ground nuts were concealed by heavy snows.
Women of the Colony were set to digging clams; a ration of five kernels
of corn a day for each person was ordered. The Colonists were on the
verge of starvation and had designated Feb. 22, 1631, as a fast day of
prayer."
"Governor Winthrop, anticipating a hard winter, had sent Captain Pierce
to England for provisions in the ship Lyon the previous fall. Pierce
was delayed when he came upon the ship Ambrose, dismasted, and towed
her home to Bristol. The Colonists had about given up hope of his
return when the Lyon was spied, in the words of Cotton Mather, "just as
Winthrop was distributing the last handful of meal in the barrel."
"The Lyon was loaded with beef and pork, wheat, peas, oatmeal, cheese,
butter, suet and lemon juice. The scheduled fast day was joyfully
turned into a Thanksgiving day. Mary Lowe in Thanksgiving, edited by
Robert H. Schauffer, calls this "the first Thanksgiving day of which
any written record remains in the Colonial records of Massachusetts"
and adds, "We may justly claim this as the origin of Thanksgiving day."
Lincoln writes: "This appears to have been the origin of Thanksgiving
day." W. deLoss Love, Jr., in Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New
England, calls the 1621 celebration "a harvest festival....not a
Thanksgiving at all....not a day set aside for religious worship, but a
whole week of festivity." Mary Lowe agrees, stating many deny the 1621
celebration was the first Thanksgiving day and pointed out the lack of
any religious service during this week of feasting."
"Described as the most celebrated master of ships to come into the
water of New England during the Colonists' early history, Captain
William was an intimate and confidant of both Gov. William Bradford and
Edward Winslow, a founder of the Colony, thrice governor and later
commissioner of the United Colonies of New England."
"According to Lincoln, Captain William was master of the Mayflower on
nine different voyages. He certainly was captain was these ships:
Paragon, 1622, (owned by brother John); Anne, 1623, third ship to
arrive from England; Charity, 1624, carrying Winslow and the first
cattle from England; Jacob, 1625; Mayflower, 1629: Lyon, 1630, with
Roger Williams and wife; Lyon, 1631, with John Elliot and Governor
Winthrop's wife; Lyon, 1632, with Winthrop; Rebecca, 1634;
Narragansett, 1634."
"He was in the West Indies in 1635 and the same year rescued refugees
from the Connecticut Valley. He sailed to Block Island in the Desire in
1636 and the next year took supplies from Boston to soldiers fighting
in the Pequot war. He sailed the Desire from London to Boston in 1638
and the next year sailed her back to London in a record 23 days. In
1641 in the same ship he commanded an expedition carrying dissenters to
the West Indies. The Spaniards were hostile and he turned back, stopped
at New Providence, an island in the Bahamas, to bring away a
congregation there."
"Says Colonel Pierce in his Pierce Genealogy: "Though finding the
Spaniards already in possession he stood gallantly in, hoping to rescue
his countrymen. When the enemy opened upon him with cannon, he sent his
people into the hold for safety, retaining on deck but one man to aid
in working the ship. While lying in the caboose watching the sails, the
captain and this sailor were fatally wounded by the same shot (July 13,
1641). The Desire headed for home, her noble master finding a fitting
grave in the blue sea upon which so much of his life had been spent.
His death was much lamented in the two colonies, which had so long
known him as a skilful navigator and a Christian gentleman.""
"One of the "two colones" referred to certainly was Massachusetts, and
the other may be Virginia. Lincoln states that Pierce lived briefly
(1623-4) at James City, Va., with his wife Jane and 34 servants and
that he served as Burgess from James City to the Virginia general
assembly, later moving to Boston. Colonel Pierce, however, gives as
William's addresses only Bristol, England, Boston, and Providence in
the Bahamas.
[619]
It is said that Ann Somerset escaped to France with her children.
Records in existence show that her son Ferdinand did have issue there.
Ann Somerset died in Belgi